After our time with the bobcat on Saturday we searched a couple other local hotspots as the sun was setting. We watched this hole for about 15 minutes before this badger came out. It studied us for a few minutes before it finally left its hole and disappeared over the ridge. This was the first time that either of us have seen a badger in the wild.
Canon EOS R5m2
RF600mm F4 L IS USM + EXTENDER RF1.4x
ƒ/5.6 840.0 mm 1/1000 ISO 32000
Thank you all for your compliments. It was really exciting waiting for it to come out of it's hole. It was getting dark (note that ISO at 32000). I was worried that the pictures wouldn't be worth processing. I tried Steve's tip on taking a few shots at high shutter speed and then reducing it as the shoot went along. The last shot was at 1/80th and ISO 3200. I was shocked at how well they turned out. I know on any of my older cameras that they would have gone straight in the recycle bin.
ChrisAttebery wrote:
Thank you. Oh, I'm sure that this was all his (or her) doing. They are prodigious diggers.
I guess I shouldn't be too surprised... but the worst digger's I've seen yet are *wild boar.
*My other hobby growing up was model aviation... we learned that we had to be very careful about letting nutsedge grow (evidently a favorite of theirs) on our airfield because one time, a pack of boar used their tusks to dig up a section of our perfectly leveled and graded grass runway as big a Volkswagen Vanagon to feast on it! We had to bring in heavy equipment to fix it! Crazy, heh.
We had to bring in heavy equipment to fix it! Crazy, heh.